The Comparison between Contextual Guessing Strategies vs. Memorizing a List of Isolated Words in Vocabulary Learning Regarding Long Term Memory
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Kaynakça
- Cunningham S, Moor P (2005). New Cutting Edge: Intermediate Student Book. Longman.
- Hornby AS (2009). Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
- McCarthy MJ (1984). A New Look at Vocabulary in EFL. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 5: 12Nagy W, Herman P, Anderson R (1985). LearningWords from Context. Reading Research Quarterly, 20, 233-253.
- Wiemer-Hastings P, Graesser A, Wiemer-Hastings K (1998). Inferring the meaning of verbs from context. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1142–1147.
- Seibert LC (1927). An Experiment in Learning French Vocabulary. Journal of Educational Psychology, 18: 294-309.
- Webb S (2008). The Effect of Context on Incidental Vocabulary Learning. Journal of Reading in a Foreign Language, 20, 2.
The Comparison Between Contextual Guessing Strategy vs. Memorizing a List of Isolated Words in Vocabulary Learning Regarding Long Term Memory
Öz
Contextual Vocabulary acquisition is a kind of learning the new words through guessing of the meaning for an unknown word within the text. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a contextual guessing strategy on vocabulary learning at the intermediate level .contextual guessing strategy is to guess the meaning of vocabularies with the help of surrounding words in the context without any translation. This paper reports the findings of a two qualitative studies which carried out in Kavosh foreign language institute level INT2 Twenty male and female students were selected and assigned to ’context’ and ‘non-context’ groups. The context group received an instruction to infer the meaning new words while the non-context participants were treated by learning new vocabularies individually. The results indicate that contextual guessing strategy was more effective vs. a list of isolated words instruction regards being remained in long term memory.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
- Cunningham S, Moor P (2005). New Cutting Edge: Intermediate Student Book. Longman.
- Hornby AS (2009). Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
- McCarthy MJ (1984). A New Look at Vocabulary in EFL. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 5: 12Nagy W, Herman P, Anderson R (1985). LearningWords from Context. Reading Research Quarterly, 20, 233-253.
- Wiemer-Hastings P, Graesser A, Wiemer-Hastings K (1998). Inferring the meaning of verbs from context. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1142–1147.
- Seibert LC (1927). An Experiment in Learning French Vocabulary. Journal of Educational Psychology, 18: 294-309.
- Webb S (2008). The Effect of Context on Incidental Vocabulary Learning. Journal of Reading in a Foreign Language, 20, 2.
Ayrıntılar
| Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
|---|---|
| Konular | Spor Hekimliği |
| Bölüm | Makaleler |
| Yazarlar | |
| Yayımlanma Tarihi | 16 Mart 2014 |
| Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2014 Cilt 2 - Sayı 1 |
